SACRAMENTO — A long-standing legal fight over ownership rights to the song “Happy Birthday” appears to have ended.
U.S. District Judge George King of the Central District of California on Tuesday announced that plaintiffs in a class action had reached a settlement with Warner/Chappell Music Inc. over the music house’s claims that it held the copyright to the birthday standard. King vacated the scheduled Dec. 15 trial date.
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